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Topic: volcanoes

View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Jupiter seen from the surface of volcanic moon Io. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Heavy volcanic eruption on Jupiter's Io

Matthew Rozsa
Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. (National Museum of Denmark)

"Sun stones" to ward off deadly volcano

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Venus (Getty Images/Baac3nes)

Venus probably never had an ocean: study

Matthew Rozsa
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Lava erupts from the crater of a volcano near the mountain Litli-Hrútur, about 40 kilometers southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland. (Philipp Schulze/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Is climate change fueling volcanoes?

Matthew Rozsa
Volcanic exoplanet, illustration (NASA, ESA, CSA, Dani Player)

Exoplanet exploding with molten lava

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of Pteranodon sp. flying reptiles watching a massive meteor approaching Earth's surface. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did climate change kill most dinosaurs?

Matthew Rozsa
Maxar overview satellite imagery shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano on January 6, 2022, before the eruption on January 14th , 2022 in Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Islands, Tonga. (Maxar via Getty Images)

Are volcanoes causing climate change?

Matthew Rozsa
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LP 791-18 d, shown here in an artist's concept, is an Earth-size world about 90 light-years away. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KRBwyle))

Are volcanoes needed for alien life?

Nicole Karlis
Planet Venus (Getty Images/3quarks)

NASA changes its mind about Venus

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of planet Venus with visible atmosphere (Getty Images/Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library)

Venus joins the active volcano club

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Evidence of Yellowstone super-eruptions

Erin Martin-Jones - Massive Science
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(Getty/allanswart)

We probed Santorini’s volcano with sound

Emilie Hooft - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

Using volcanoes to study climate change

Cassie Freund - Massive Science
Villagers walk through debris after being hit by a tsunami as they carry their belongings on December 24, 2018 in Carita, Banten province, Indonesia. (Getty/Ulet Ifansasti)

(AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

Volcanoes are erupting all over the news

Laura Carter
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(AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)

Good reasons to respect volcanoes

Brittany Brand - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

How do we predict volcanic activity?

Tracy K.P. Gregg - The Conversation
(Richard Waitt, U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

Antarctica's volcanoes

Keith A. Spencer
(Robert B. Smith and Lee J. Siegel)

Yellowstone's huge magma store

Lindsay Abrams
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) (AP)

Lindsay Abrams
(Gianpiero Orbassano)

Maggie Foucault
People cross a street covered with ash from the eruption of the Fuego Volcano at Antigua Guatemala, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. (AP/Moises Castillo)

"Fire volcano" erupts

Lindsay Abrams
The Laki Crater in Iceland. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-364483p1.html'>Rudolf Tepfenhart</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Europe's lost volcano disaster

Lindsay Abrams
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